{"id":6131,"date":"2015-12-08T02:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2015-12-08T02:42:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:42:52","slug":"un-secretary-general-ban-ki-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6131","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 7, 2015, Paris<\/p>\n

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at a press conference inside COP21 in Paris. Here’s a few excerpts where he speaks about the INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) and the need to reach an agreement by the end of the conference Friday.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The national climate plans are a welcome start but they fall short of our goal to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius. We much go much farther and much faster. That is why we need action now here in Paris. We cannot afford half measures or delay. We have less than just four days of negotiations left. Some tough issue still remain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6132 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UN_BanKi-Moon02475.jpg\" alt=\"UN_BanKi-moon02475\" width=\"550\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A political momentum like this may not come again. I urge ministers and negotiators gathered here not to squander it. I’m confident that Paris can be a turning point, a decisive turning point in our history to a cleaner healthier more sustainable and prosperous future.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ~ United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6137 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/UN_BanKi-Moon02378.jpg\" alt=\"UN_BanKi-Moon02378\" width=\"550\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\nReport by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 7, 2015, Paris UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at a press conference inside COP21 in Paris. Here’s a few excerpts where he speaks about the INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) and the need to reach an agreement by the end of the conference Friday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The national climate plans are a welcome start but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}